Description
A reissue of a famous 1995 recording by the young Nikolai Lugansky.
Gramophone: "immense technical fluency, innate musical quality, exceptionally well-mannered performances. Lugansky's tone is beautifully rounded and unforced in all parts of the dynamic spectrum (a truly Russian prerogative) and passages of delicate filigree are spun off with a no less enviable elegance and lightness."
Musicweb:"The piano playing is truly outstanding, with the young Russian giving the sort of red-blooded readings that have one thinking of a young Richter, Gilels or from our own time, Kissin or Pletnev... This is altogether outstanding Soviet pianism..."
'Textures are clear, both from the orchestra and from the soloist, and when Lugansky finds himself accompanying orchestral soloists he does so with great sensitivity. The recording is perfectly fine, and the balance between the piano and the orchestra is ideal, a particular pleasure.' – Music Web International